Experience

• Texas A&M University

  Assistant professor

  Jeffrey Liew received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Arizona State University in 2005. That same year, he joined the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor. Liew’s research includes social, emotional, and personality development, with a focus on the roles of emotion and self-regulation in individuals’ academic, psychosocial, and health-related outcomes. Through his research, he has addressed issues such as achievement and mental health disparities and childhood obesity. Dr. Liew was awarded the TAMU Children, Youth, and Families Initiative Seed Grant in 2006. In 2010, Liew was awarded research grants through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. In 2011, Liew was awarded the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) Early Career Travel Award. He presently serves as consulting editor for Early Childhood Research Quarterly and the Journal of Genetic Psychology.
  
  For more info, please visit his professional website:
  http://directory.cehd.tamu.edu/view.epl?nid=jeffrey.liew

• Texas A&M University

  Professor and Associate Department Head for Research and Faculty Development

  Jeffrey Liew is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology with courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University. He also serves as Associate Department Head for Research and Faculty Development his department. Jeffrey Liew's expertise includes human development, particularly emotion, motivation, and self-regulation in academic, psychosocial, and health-related outcomes from the preschool years to the high school and college years. Liew's 3 L's (Live, Love, Learn) sum up his passion and commitment to research that helps people to live, love, and learn in better, healthier, and more meaningful ways. His work has been supported by research grants through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH-NICHD), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), and the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. He presently serves as Associate Editor for Early Education & Development and as a 2-term elected representative of TAMU's Council of Principal Investigators (CPI) and as a member of the CPI executive committee, and as peer reviewer for national and international funding agencies, including NIH and NSF. Liew ranked top 5 in the nation for scholarly impact; in a study published in 2013 (Grapin, Kranzler, & Daley, 2013); Liew ranked #4 for highest number of citations between 2005 and 2009 for faculty in APA-accredited School Psychology programs. In 2017, Liew was honored as one of the inaugural Presidential Impact Fellows at Texas A&M University.

• Texas A&M University

  Associate professor

  Jeffrey Liew’s professional expertise includes psychology, human development, education, and learning sciences. His research focuses on social, emotional, and personality development across the life-span, with an emphasis on early childhood and adolescence. In particular, Dr. Liew examines emotion and self-regulation in individuals' academic, psychosocial, and health-related outcomes and trajectories. Through his research, Dr. Liew has addressed issues such as achievement and mental health disparities and childhood obesity. Dr. Liew was awarded the TAMU Children, Youth, and Families Initiative Seed Grant in 2006. In 2010, Liew was awarded research grants through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH-NICHD) and the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. In 2011, he along with a team of TAMU researchers received funding through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design educational technology to help support both science (STEM) and social-emotional learning for children. He presently serves as Associate Editor for Early Education & Development, and as consulting editor for Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, the Journal of Genetic Psychology, and the Journal of Reading Psychology. Liew is active in his scholarly and research communities, serving as an elected member on the Council of Principal Investigators at TAMU, and as peer reviewer on review panels for national and international agencies, including the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  
  For more info, please visit his professional website:
  http://directory.cehd.tamu.edu/view.epl?nid=jeffrey.liew

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  Development Consultant

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